Nicholas Hilliard, portrait of Princess Elizabeth

Nicholas Hilliard (1547-1619)
Portrait of Princess Elizabeth'
About 1606-9
Watercolour on vellum, stuck to a playing card
Museum no. P.4-1937

Elizabeth was James I's only daughter, born in 1596. She married the future King of Bohemia in 1613 and was known as 'Elizabeth of Bohemia'. Her grandson became George I, the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain.